{"id":11,"date":"2008-05-09T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T02:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-05-09T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T02:33:26","slug":"on-my-way-home-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"On My Way Home Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple I spotted on my way home today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>There were hand painted Ampersands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0306 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2479715274\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2346\/2479715274_83492feb62.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0306\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA local deli. I really like this one. Hand-painted and chubby.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0302 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2479712426\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2294\/2479712426_eae9f4bb01.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0302\" width=\"469\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCoffee & Donuts. Another old-school hand-painted sign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some clean sans-serif ones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0300 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2478897785\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3010\/2478897785_4f85e07e63.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0300\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe old classic Helvetica ampersand from the Crate & Barrel logo. Helvetica always looks great giant and 3-D like that.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0305 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2478901179\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2073\/2478901179_9aff1c472e.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0305\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYour standard sans-serif ampersand. From a deli\/liquor store awning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A curly one<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_0298 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2478896717\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2478896717_316c67b0bb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0298\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nProbably a law firm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some odd ones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0301 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2479710924\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3014\/2479710924_a0b622b79c_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0301\" width=\"511\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nnice and square. \u201cEt\u201d style ampersand, appears to be based on a \u201cB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0304 by SoylentG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/2478900903\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2395\/2478900903_82689ab054.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0304\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis one is absolutely horrible. Notice the \u201c8\u201d shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple I spotted on my way home today: There were hand painted Ampersands A local deli. I really like this one. Hand-painted and chubby. Coffee &#038; Donuts. Another old-school hand-painted sign. Some clean sans-serif ones The old classic Helvetica ampersand from the Crate &#038; Barrel logo. Helvetica always looks great giant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13,14,18,21],"tags":[71,165,194,564,245,294,378,419,570],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ampersands-i-dislike","category-ampersands-i-like","category-examples","category-from-the-field","category-photography","category-signage","tag-bad-ampersand","tag-curly","tag-et","tag-from-the-field","tag-hand-painted","tag-law-firm","tag-photo","tag-sans-serif","tag-signage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}